Beowulf Students study the literature and literary techniques of the early Middle Ages, preparing to read Beowulf with an appreciation for its artistry and beauty. Students will learn the conventions of Anglo-Saxon poetry, solve online riddles, write riddles, and reflect on what they have learned. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=410
Site with various links (some interactive, some resources for teachers) on different activities for the novel Beowulf in a high school classroom (grades 11-12th) http://www.webenglishteacher.com/beowulf.html
Scarlet Letter Scarlet Letter- Links that can connect you to interactive vocabulary, text online, discussion questions, diagrams, and lots more. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hawthorne.html
Edgar Allan Poe This interactive site has a lot of information about the author, plus games and interactive maps relating to his life and works. NOTE: This site is for older students and includes external links to sites that have discussion boards. http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
Explore the links to learn more about Poe and to read letters written to him and by him. Click on "Works" to read his poems and tales. Other links lead to descriptions of his house and grave http://www.eapoe.org/
In this Webquest, students investigate Poe’s life and its impact on his works. Very interactive and fun project for students to work on while reading some of his work. http://www.geocities.com/educationplace/poe/wqpoe.htm
This museum site includes a biography of his life and samples of some of his works. There is also an online quiz. http://www.poemuseum.org/
Macbeth Macbeth- This site is text only but I suggest it b/c it translates Macbeth in terms that high school students will find fascinating- blood and gruesome stories. http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm
What happens if a student forgets their novel in their locker? With this website, many popular high school (and some middle) school novels are posted online for free. No excuses now! http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML
Excellent site for elementary and/or middle school age students. Site offers a ReadWriteThink approach with different interactive tools. They would love it! http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Site with lots of links all related to literature (mostly 8th-12th grade). Not all links are interactive but offer good ideas for teaching literature. http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/litera1.htm
Elementary Level Picture Books - Big Universe® is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, http://www.biguniverse.com/
Lookybook allows you to look at picture books in their entirety—from cover to cover, at your own pace. Lookybook’s goal is to post current and past picture books that are worth looking at, but it will take time to build our collection. We are increasing our collection by the minute and constantly in search of new titles to post. http://www.lookybook.com
Interactive daily warm-up for students. Daily Edit… post the paragraph on the whiteboard and have students edit it from their desk when they enter the room. After a couple of minutes, have students come to the board to edit. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml
Interactive Storyboards- when we ask students to create a PowerPoint presentation, we all see them much more worried about the graphics, the design, and how pretty it is…. Not the content. The interactive storyboards change this. The content becomes the focus compared to the design. http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/storyboards/index.shtml
Excellent site for elementary and/or middle school age students. Site offers a ReadWriteThink approach with different interactive tools. They would love it! http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Read Hundreds of published books or create your own. This is a great site for all grade levels. Share quality reading time with your children or students. Select books from our extensive collection or bring out your creativity, improve your writing skills, or just have fun writing a book together with your child or as a classroom project. You can even publish your creation to share with friends and family! http://www.biguniverse.com
Literature
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/literature/
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Literature- Uncle Toms Cabin (site lists around 7 different lesson plans)
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_uncletomcabin.htm
Beowulf
Students study the literature and literary techniques of the early Middle Ages, preparing to read Beowulf with an appreciation for its artistry and beauty. Students will learn the conventions of Anglo-Saxon poetry, solve online riddles, write riddles, and reflect on what they have learned.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=410
Site with various links (some interactive, some resources for teachers) on different activities for the novel Beowulf in a high school classroom (grades 11-12th)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/beowulf.html
Scarlet Letter
Scarlet Letter- Links that can connect you to interactive vocabulary, text online, discussion questions, diagrams, and lots more.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hawthorne.html
Scarlet Letter- Lesson Planet (10 day free trial) with great lesson plans for all types of learning. This link connects you to ideas all related to the Scarlet Letter.
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search/search?keywords=Scarlet+Letter&media=lesson&offset=10
Edgar Allan Poe
This interactive site has a lot of information about the author, plus games and interactive maps relating to his life and works. NOTE: This site is for older students and includes external links to sites that have discussion boards.
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
Explore the links to learn more about Poe and to read letters written to him and by him. Click on "Works" to read his poems and tales. Other links lead to descriptions of his house and grave
http://www.eapoe.org/
In this Webquest, students investigate Poe’s life and its impact on his works. Very interactive and fun project for students to work on while reading some of his work.
http://www.geocities.com/educationplace/poe/wqpoe.htm
Click on the links to read the full text for five of Poe's stories
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/
This museum site includes a biography of his life and samples of some of his works. There is also an online quiz.
http://www.poemuseum.org/
Macbeth
Macbeth- This site is text only but I suggest it b/c it translates Macbeth in terms that high school students will find fascinating- blood and gruesome stories.
http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm
Various Literature Activities
Lessons/Activities/Interaction/Worksheets on popular literature novels
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subcategory=37&grade=9-12&Display=Display
What happens if a student forgets their novel in their locker? With this website, many popular high school (and some middle) school novels are posted online for free. No excuses now!
http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES/ARCHIVES.HTML
Literacy Elements- High School Level Literature. Site is full of graphics. Only downfall is that the site corresponds to a textbook so you would need to search for the content focus.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson2.ini&height2=296
Excellent site for elementary and/or middle school age students. Site offers a ReadWriteThink approach with different interactive tools. They would love it!
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Site with lots of links all related to literature (mostly 8th-12th grade). Not all links are interactive but offer good ideas for teaching literature.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/litera1.htm
Over 1,000 picture links to places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors.
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm
Picture Books
Elementary Level Picture Books - Big Universe® is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool,
http://www.biguniverse.com/
Lookybook allows you to look at picture books in their entirety—from cover to cover, at your own pace. Lookybook’s goal is to post current and past picture books that are worth looking at, but it will take time to build our collection. We are increasing our collection by the minute and constantly in search of new titles to post.
http://www.lookybook.com
Phonics
Elementary Level Phonics exercises and videos
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
Site has crossword puzzles and lots of word games
http://www.brainbashers.com
Spelling
http://www.funbrain.com/spellroo/index.html
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html
Building Language for Literacy- young children
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/index.htm
Vocabulary Activities- some with audio
Grade level ranges from young-high
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
Primary School Literacy Activities
Includes objectives, tasks, and outcomes
http://www.molehill-copse.kent.sch.uk/whiteboard%20done%20literacy.html
Grammar
Interactive daily warm-up for students. Daily Edit… post the paragraph on the whiteboard and have students edit it from their desk when they enter the room. After a couple of minutes, have students come to the board to edit.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml
Great site for grades 3rd-5th on basic parts of speech and vocabulary. They will love it!
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.html
Glossary for grades 1st-5th (some with audio)
http://www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/grammar/index5p.html
Grade 3- Proofreading
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interactive_guide/g03/g03home.htm
Grades 1st-5th Grammar Skills (with audio and quiz)
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c10/nadia.htm
The Grammar Gorillas- beginner (nouns and verbs) and advanced (all parts of speech). Site does contain advertisements
http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/
Grammar Activities- some with audio
Grade level ranges from young-high
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm
TONS of links for grammar- click on G for grammar
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/by-title.shtml#G
The Plural Girls- younger grades (multiple choice or fill in the blanks)
http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html
Word Confusion- younger grades
http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html
Is this sentence correct? Quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/126153.html
Punctuate- 4 Games
http://www.quia.com/jg/282829.html
TONS of interactive links! Links connect to grammar, writing, and much more!
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html#Interactive
Proofreading Exercises- great to use as a warm-up activity
http://webnz.co.nz/checkers/proof2.html
Writing Prompts
Writing Prompts with Pictures
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/ideasforwriters_preview/gr4/prompts/prompts_pictures.html
Prompt Generator
http://208.183.128.3/write/create.htm
Wacky Tales- younger (Mad Libs)
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/wt.cgi?A1=s
More Writing Prompts- tons of links. Great site for writing!
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001233.shtml
Writing
TONS of links- click on W for writing exercises
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/by-title.shtml#G
Brief explanations of writing types
http://esd.iu5.org/TeacherLink/writingrubric/persuasive_cover.htm
Writing handbook- a lot of text but a lot of information
http://www.saugatuck.k12.mi.us/handbook.htm
Writing Guide- lots of text!
http://www.oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wg/index.htm
Interactive Storyboards- when we ask students to create a PowerPoint presentation, we all see them much more worried about the graphics, the design, and how pretty it is…. Not the content. The interactive storyboards change this. The content becomes the focus compared to the design.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/storyboards/index.shtml
Setting- Site and narrator goes along with Shakespearean times. Suitable for high school level students and/or advanced middle school language arts classes.
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/Setting/default.htm
Literacy and Poetry- Site offers interactive quizzes that uses literacy and poetry vocabulary.
http://m253.sd40.bc.ca/palc/Quiz/litquiz.htm
Excellent site for elementary and/or middle school age students. Site offers a ReadWriteThink approach with different interactive tools. They would love it!
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Read Hundreds of published books or create your own. This is a great site for all grade levels. Share quality reading time with your children or students. Select books from our extensive collection or bring out your creativity, improve your writing skills, or just have fun writing a book together with your child or as a classroom project. You can even publish your creation to share with friends and family!
http://www.biguniverse.com
Poetry
http://www.poetryforge.org/resources.htm
Poetry- Site with tons of poetry links.
http://www.poetryforge.org/resources.htm
Teen Ink Poetry- There are 3,413 items currently in the poetry section. This is poems written by teenagers for teenagers.
http://teenink.com/Poetry/
Instant Poetry Forms- choose your poetry form from the list of links on the left then just add words to make the poem your own.
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
Persuasive Writing Ideas
High School- Ten Persuasive Writing Prompts
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/018.shtml
Middle/High- All you need to know about writing a persuasive paper
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/pers.html
Persuasive Writing Lesson Plan
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAKinestheticApproachPersuasiveWriting510.htm
PowerPoint- On persuasive writing- How advertisers use your feelings to get you to agree with them.
http://infusion.allconet.org/webquest/MTAPP/EmotionalAppealsfireball.ppt
Persuasive Writing Worksheet- could be saved to Word for computer writing
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/forms/persuasv.htm
Study guide for writing a persuasive essay
http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr4.htm
SAT Prep
Free online tutorials and practice tests
http://www.proprofs.com/sat/exams/practice-tests.shtml